Healed by His Secret Baby by Louisa Heaton

Author:Louisa Heaton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-01T19:09:09+00:00

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‘Have you two had a falling out?’ asked Mary, the receptionist.

Lane had been standing at Reception, just passing the time whilst she waited for her next patient to arrive, when Cole had walked up, passed over some swabs to be sent to Pathology, and then walked away without saying a word.

She had been hyper-aware of him being there. Knew exactly that it had been his surgery door that had opened, his footsteps she’d heard approaching and had breathed in his cologne as he’d stood by her side to hand the swabs to Mary to put in the collection box.

She’d tensed when he’d stood next to her, even though she’d not meant to. But her birthday had ended so awkwardly, and he’d driven her home practically in silence, only making occasional comments on the rain or the traffic and then saying a hurried, ‘Thank you for today,’ when he’d dropped her off at her house.

She’d never before needed a hug from Tori so badly! Needed just to hold her and squeeze her tight and talk to her as if she were Skye.

‘I made a huge mistake today. I kissed him. I kissed your father. And it was breathtaking and amazing and the whole world stopped turning for just a moment.’

She’d paused then, imagining Skye asking the question, ‘And then what happened?’

And then nothing had happened. She’d seen his shutters come down so quickly, and although it had been raining and cold all day, that had been the first time she’d felt a chill. The fun had gone out of the day and they’d both quickly agreed that maybe it was time to go home?

At the start of the day she’d imagined arriving home and thanking him with a big smile and a peck on the cheek, saying, See you Monday! as she skipped from the car. But nothing could have been further from the truth. And now she didn’t know how to be around him.

‘No. Not really,’ she said now.

Mary smiled. ‘Not really? That means you’ve at least had words of some kind. You can tell me; I won’t tell anyone else.’

Lane smiled at Mary’s persistence. ‘He took me out for my birthday and it didn’t go very well, that’s all.’

‘Oh...’ Mary seemed thoughtful. ‘How so?’

‘It was raining and cold and just not the fun day we’d envisaged.’

‘But surely then you’d be commiserating with each other? You froze faster than if you’d been dipped in liquid nitrogen when he came up beside you.’ Mary tapped her finger against her bottom lip. ‘Something else happened...’

‘Nothing happened.’

‘You sure of that?’

She smiled. ‘Absolutely.’ And then she felt a welling of relief as she saw her patient arrive for his free NHS Health Check. ‘Mr Jammeh! Would you like to come down?’

As she escorted her patient down the corridor Mary leaned over the reception counter and called after her, ‘I’ll find out!’

Lane shook her head. She liked Mary. She was like the practice’s mother hen, looking after all her chicks.

She opened her door and escorted her patient in.

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